Quotes About Fear

Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.

Love brings up everything unlike itself so that you can let go of fear and be the loving person you truly are.

Each of us is called to do something in the name of love, to make sure that humanity comes to understand itself and is able to choose love over fear.

and now with horror and loathing they had seen the clouds gather once more in the quarter whence all superstition had had its birth.

We Italians will kill you," a John Gotti associate once warned a potential snitch over a government wire. "But the Russians are crazy—they'll kill your whole family.

Unfortunately, Captain Graf created fear and mistrust in her followers, rather than stoking the courage, skill, and confidence she intended.

fear of taking responsibility, especially the sense that it is safer to do nothing, or something bad, than the right thing.

As Anteby and Chan point out, people who fear retribution from the powerful have long used invisibility as a protective cloak.

Researchers MeowLan Evelyn Chan and Daniel McAllister contend that when employees distrust others too much and are flooded with fear and anxiety, they become excessively vigilant, focus on just the bad and tune out the good, and see evil motives in the most innocent actions.

Think of the lives it has blighted – of the tears it has caused – of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. … It is a great pleasure to drive the fiend of fear out of the hearts of men, women and children. It is a positive joy to put out the fires of hell.

fear is overestimating your problems and underestimating your God. How often we minimize our Savior and maximize our storms!

The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. – Proverbs 29:25

Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come. – Revelation 14:7

Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. – Psalm 56:3

Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. – Matthew 10:31

Stated in theory form, what I'm talking about here is the Theory of Intimidation, which states: The results a person achieves are inversely proportionate to the degree to which he is intimidated.

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

That panic had been over a single one-hour broadcast on one network in one country saying the world was coming to an end," continued Groves. "Imagine what a constant barrage of such coverage everywhere on the planet for weeks or months would do.

The most feared situation is to end up inadvertently in the wrong place at the wrong time and get blamed. Yet this is exactly what happens in a structure that systematically diffuses responsibility. It is because managers fear blame-time that they diffuse responsibility; however such a diffusion inevitably means that someone, somewhere is going to become a scapegoat when things go wrong.

Robert, there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. You frighten me, even though you're gentle with me. If I didn't fight to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back.

Things change. They always do, its one of the things of nature. Most people are afraid of change but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

there's a creature inside of you that I'm not good enough to bring out, not strong enough to reach. I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about. You frighten me, even though you're gentle with me. If I didn't fight to control myself with you, I feel like I might lose my center and never get back.

is as old as man. It has come down through the centuries, misted in legend, shrouded with the dark dread of a hereditary curse. In the Egypt of the Pharaohs, a woman was forbidden to bear further children if her firstborn son bled to death from a minor wound. The ancient Talmud barred circumcision in a family if two successive male children had suffered fatal hemorrhages.